Snapping-rolls for corn-husking machines.



No. 721,798. PATENTED MAR. s, 1903.

F. HAGEN.

- SNAPPING ROLLS FOR CORN HUSKING MACHINES.

APPLIOATIQN FIL/ED DEC. 31, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK HAGEN, OF BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS.

SNAPPlNG-ROLLS FOR CORN-HUSKING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 721,798, dated March 3,1903. Application filed December 31,1901. Serial No. 87,894- (Ilomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDRICK HAGEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Belvidere, in the county of Boone and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snapping-Rolls forCorn- Husking Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct snapping-rolls for corn-husking machines by which the cornstalks will be drawn through withoutcutting them off and the ears of corn will be snapped from the stalks.

In the'accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of myimproved snappingrolls. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on' dotted linea, Fig. 1.

The two rolls 1 and 2 are the duplicate of each other andfco'mprise twoseries of lengthwise ribs 3 and 4. The ribs 3 connect the heads 5, andthe ribs 4 do not extend the full distance between the heads 5, leavingspace 6. The ribs 3 have recesses 7 in their outer faces, and the ribs 4have recesses 8 in their outer faces. The recesses of the ribs 3 arelocated centrally between the recesses of the ribs 4. In use I prefer tolocate the rolls with respect to each other as shown in thedrawings-that is, the short ribs of one roll are located to run oppositethe long ribs of the other roll, and the recess of one roll comescentrally between the recesses of the other roll. Gears 9 connect thetwo rolls and form the means for rotating them and insures theirrotating in proper relation with each other. The rolls rotate towardeach other, and the cornstalks The rotation of the rolls will draw thestalks through until an ear of corn is reached, and before the ear issnapped from thehusk the rolls will have secured a hold upon the husk,thereby carrying the husks, with the stalks, through the rolls. Thestalks in passing through the rolls are not flattened sufficiently tocut them off, as thestalks are located in the recesses in passingthrough. At the meeting-point between the rolls, as shown at Fig. 2,each alternate recess in the top roll and one-twelfth of a revolutionwill place the recesses at the 'samepoint in the bottom roll, so thatthe stalks are received alternately in the recesses, the recesses of oneroll and the solid portion of the ribs of the other roll always comingtogether. By making some of the ribs short a recess is formed, intowhich the stalks can enter in order that a hold may be had upon them.

I claim as my invention A pair of like snapping-rolls for a corn-huskingmachine, each roll comprising a series of lengthwise ribs, each ribhaving a series of FREDRIOK HAGEN.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL.

